Transnational in the History of Education

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of History of Education and Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.Eugenia Roldán Vera is Professor of History of Education at the Department of Educational Research in the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico. Her research interests include the history of education in Mexico and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the history of textbooks, transnational dissemination of educational models, and the ritual and performative aspects of schooling.

“The volume is of interest for all scholars who want to explore educational histories beyond and across various political entities of the modern world.” (Jana Tschurenev, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, June 29, 2020)

• 1. Introduction: The Transnational in the History of Education.- 2. The Transnational and Transcultural: Approaches to Studying the Circulation and Transfer of Educational Knowledge.- 3. Day Nurseries in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Challenge of the Transnational Approach.- 4. Conversations about the Transnational: Reading and Writing the Empire in the History of Education.- 5. Transnationalism and the Engagement of Empire: Precursors of the Postcolonial World.- 6. Adaptations of Adaptation. On how an Educational Concept Travels from the Heartlands to the Hinterlands.- 7. Analyzing Toru Dutt's Oeurvre Today: How a Transnational Literary-Educational Casus from Colonial India Can Enrich our Conception of Transnational History.- 8. Temporalities and the Transnational: Yoshi Kasuya's Consideration of Secondary Education for Girls in Japan.- 9. (De)Constructing the Global Community. Education, Childhood and the Transnational History of International Organizations.-10. Transnational as Comparative History: (Un)Thinking Differences in the Self and Others.-